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Records for Saint Cecilia's Day, including music by Handel, Britten and Ravel.
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Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Schubert's Symphony No 5, in B flat, by NOËL Goodwin. Recent records of choral and organ music: reviewed by GILES BRYANT.
A concert for children recorded last Saturday in the Royal Festival Hall, London
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) PAUL ELLIOTT (tenor)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) GEOFFREY SHAW (baritone)
EARLY MUSIC CONSORT OF LONDON Introduced and directed by David Munrow
Dance Music of Four Centuries Saltarello Michael Praetorius Passameze from Terpsichore (1612)
English 13th-century: Estampie French 13th-century: Danse Royale; Two motets: In mari miserie; Alle - psallite cumluya
Italian 14th-century: Istampitta: Tre Fontane
Francesco Landinl Ballata : Ecco la primavera
Italian 14th-century: Guillaume Dufay Rondeau : Ce moys de may
French 15th-century: Basse danse: La Spagna
English 15th-century: The Agincourt carol
Four 16th-century dance songs JohnDowlandAlman:Thinkst thou then by thy feigning
French 16th-century: Pavan: Belle qui tient ma vie
John Dowland Galliard: Can she excuse; Coranto: Now, oh now I needs must part
Michael Praetorius Dances from Terpsichore (1612): La bouree; Courante M. M. Wiistrow ; Suite de Ballets; La Sarabande: Suite de Voltes
Suite: HSry János
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ISTVAN KERTESZ gramophone records
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
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Donald Milner introduces a programme of press reaction to the week's events, drawn from newspapers round the world.
Hark, the Trumpet sounds Appalling
This infelicitous Victorian translation of ' Tuba mirum ' supports Bernard Shaw 's only fear of death - that when the last trumpet sounded it might be out of tune. Telemann saw it as a hunting horn, Mozart and Saint-Saens as the trombone, Dvorak, Verdi and Berlioz as full brass. Record requests from the under-20s, introduced by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOS
Douglas Craig , Director of the Sadler's Wells Theatre, presents the reminiscences of a musical practitioner. ' I can hardly remember a time when I was not involved in music as a performer or an administrator.'
He includes records of three singers with whom he has been particularly associated (RICHARD LEWIS , SIR GERAINT EVANS and GWYNETH JONES). music from Koanga by Delius and Idomeneo by Mozart, and GEORGE SHEARING playing Lullaby of Birdland.
Mendelssohn and Dvorak
Today's programme includes the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's Octet: MELOS ENSEMBLE the Fugue from his Four Pieces, Op 81: GABRIEL1 STRING QUARTET (records) and the Violin Concerto ITZHAK PERLMAN (violin)
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA The Dvorak work is his
7th Symphony in D minor
(The two symphonic works are Austrian Radio recordings from this year's Salzburg Festival) Introduced by Hugh Wood
Introduced by Peter Clayton
Robert Kee (in the Chair) talks with JOHN GROSS, RONALD HAYMAN and MARINA VAIZEY. Producer PHILIP FRENCH followed by an interlude
Music drama in three acts by Wagner
(sung in German)
Recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival, made availabte by courtesy of Bavarian Radio
Sailors, attendants to King Marke
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL chorus-master NORBERT BALATSCH conducted by CARLOS KLEIBER
The action takes place In Arthurian times. Act 1
CHRISTOPHER RICKS discusses the career and achievement of the American author, teacher and literary critic Lionel Trilling , who died earlier this month.
Act 2
DAVID MARCH reads from JOHAN HUIZINGA 'S classic description of the passions of the medieval world in his The Waning of the Middle Ages.
Act 3
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